Evolutionary optimization. (Q1422057)

The book contains 17 chapters written by leading experts in evolutionary computation. It contains -- besides a couple of historical aspects -- a brief introduction to evolutionary algorithms and focusses especially on constrained nonlinear and multicriteria optimization problems. Parameter selection for those problems and assessment methodologies are shown to exhibit problems, where evolutionary techniques again can be applied to get dynamic and adaptable methods. A couple of chapters are dealing with specific areas of applications. Most of the authors demonstrate the advantages, but clearly point to drawbacks and open questions, too. Of special value is the analysis of evolutionary algorithms on pseudo-Boolean functions, given by Ingo Wegener. He and his coauthors are the first, who proved substantially sharp results on the expected run time and the success probability for evolutionary algorithms with (respectively without) crossover, giving sharp upper and lower bounds.